iPhone owners can buy these aftermarket displays now, get CarPlay this summer.

Yesterday, Alpine Electronics announced plans to release a new in-car display compatible with Apple's CarPlay. It was the first announcement we'd heard about adding CarPlay support to an existing vehicle rather than buying an all-new one, but it will require the purchase of all-new hardware—as far as we know, Alpine's existing in-car displays won't be upgraded to support the feature.

Today, the Pioneer Corporation is doing Alpine one better: it will be upgrading five of its existing aftermarket car displays to support CarPlay via a firmware update. That update will be issued in the "early summer." So if everything happens on time, buying one of Pioneer's displays will be the fastest way to get CarPlay in a car you already own.

The five displays being upgraded span a variety of price points, from the $1,400 AVIC-8000NEX at the high end to the $700 AVH-4000NEX at the low end. Those two and the $1,200 AVIC-7000NEX have 7-inch 800×480 touchscreens, while the $750 AVIC-5000NEX and $900 AVIC-6000NEX sport 6.1-inch displays with the same resolution. Each display offers a variety of features (including, in some cases, turn-by-turn navigation and Android compatibility) when there's no iPhone connected, though connecting a CarPlay-capable iPhone running iOS 7.1 should offer approximately the same experience no matter which of the screens you use.

Andrew Cunningham / Andrew has a B.A. in Classics from Kenyon College and has over five years of experience in IT. His work has appeared on Charge Shot!!! and AnandTech, and he records a weekly book podcast called Overdue.